The Forty Seventh Republic! Happy Valentines and get some half term rest

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It was recorded outside, at a distance, but so were other segments and they were ok. Guy sounded like a Dalek, Yr3 got the giggles, point about Community lost 🤷‍♀️.
Plus, I don’t really want to see some man recording in his kitchen. We can record in our kitchens. Music for Primary pretty poor, very repetitive and not at all inspiring.

Anyway. That’s probably by the by and done to death etc etc.

As an NQT I’ve found the science lessons in Oak really useful. I’ve also found EduTwitter handy but the self promotion and bun fights are so annoying.

I've not looked much at the music beyond reception, which I thought was OK. I do have an irrational annoyance about unnecessarily sanitising stuff though.

If horrible histories has taught us anything it's that most children are quite capable of dealing with it. And if 'here comes a chopper to chop off your head' was going to be an issue, they could probably have used a whole different song.

I love the resources and edu chat on edutwitter. I hate the spats and the fan clubs. Those amazon wish list people blow my mind.

Oak is OK for maths. Some bonkers methods but mostly sound. My other subject isn't on there. I've used some reception phonics with my own kid and it's been fine from my pov but I'm not an EYFS expert at all.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

That makes no sense. I could understand the audio on the stuff put up in August being rubbish. It was done in a rush. But they've had ages to do the new stuff. And they've managed without it long enough to keep going without until they get it right.

The stuff in my subject was all done for the whole academic year 20-21, last August. Am assuming it was the same for lots of other subjects too!

I forgot to post this this morning btw :

twitter.com/GCSE_Macbeth/status/1360863806210080774

In The Sunday Times.

All of the original subjects on there I think Chloe. They were trying to deal with the complaints that stuff wasn't going up quick enough first time round and deal with the fact that stuff doesn't get taught in the same order in every school.

I didn't think they'd put phonics on there this time, Herc. Or at least they said they weren't going to.

Rafals is it not phonics? Its like reading stuff, I'm definitely not an expert hahh!!

Rafals it's not phonics sorry, it's literacy.

There's not phonics that I've seen. We use the letters and sounds videos from the Dfe on YouTube.

I like the body percussion stuff for music- the kids liked the young guy doing it too. In his kitchen. That was the only thing we used apart from spelling. We're going to use their French next term, but that's pretty new - I looked early Jan and there was only Spanish.

Edutwitter full of eejits. I like Michael Tidd, he's a voice of reason. I hate the sharing of work - yeah, show me the other 11 exactly the same pieces of art. But it's better than FB, which is awful.

Those amazon wish list people blow my mind.
What is this???? Should I look or will I be scared?

Are the Amazon wish list people the people who offer something for others to use in return for buying books for their school rather than payment?

My Amazon wish list has expensive not from Amazon shoes on it. If I offer my chairs wisdom, will someone buy them for me?

They got paid £100 to read a script?

They didn't even produce the lesson and resources?

I'm not so fussed about the "download my resource and buy my school a book". It's the ones that share their wishlists and send each other gifts from them.... Why?

herc are you saying you don't want to buy me the beautiful shoes??
honey aeons ago, Letts paid me a goodly chunk of money to record some revision stuff for them. I didn't write that, but they paid me to go to London and stay in a hotel and read a not very gripping set of revision notes for something I can't now recall. It was very very easy money.

I've pretty much kept off mn all day and stated away from the news but...

Despite Raab and others being clear that they are still talking about "from 8th March" the BBC is now reporting "all children back in school ON 8th March"???

@TheHoneyBadger

They got paid £100 to read a script?

They didn't even produce the lesson and resources?

If that's true, I feel like we've all missed a trick. It could be more lucrative than being friends with Matt Hancock.

It does answer a question I had from earlier in the week about the maths. They are using Maths Mastery in primary and KS3 and WRM in KS4. I was wondering how they had manged to find so many MM teachers. It makes complete sense that they didn't.

@TheHoneyBadger

They got paid £100 to read a script?

They didn't even produce the lesson and resources?

Ikr. When OA first appeared I thought it was examples of good practice from accomplished teachers. Then I watched some. Maybe my school are sort of Super or something, but, familiarity aside, the recorded lessons our teachers are doing are more than equal to anything OA are churning out.

My Amazon wishlist if anyone is interested is a badge saying ‘High Priestess of Misinformation’, an Enemies of Education t-shirt and a pre-order of piggy’s book series.

I will be buying MrsHamlet this from hers.

Thanks, noble. That is almost all my dreams come true...

I can't believe you're buying a teacher a chair noble. MrsH make sure you don't post any photos of said chair on social media.

the recorded lessons our teachers are doing are more than equal to anything OA are churning out

Yep. And at my school we were doing it before Oak had started - before the Easter holidays. I was put out when I first saw them, because I felt mine were better. Ha. A good resource if you pick and choose.

I'm not sure what we'll be doing when we're back, because it's still going to be isolating and choosing to stay home, isn't it. Can't have full class in and be providing for 2 kids at home.

@TheHoneyBadger

They got paid £100 to read a script?

They didn't even produce the lesson and resources?

Yep!

Please please please don’t ask me how I know!